Dublin, Cheshire County, New Hampshire
From: MLMCKENZIE@prodigy.net - Michelle McKenzie
Surname: SARGENT
Source: A List of The Revolutionary Soldiers of Dublin, N.H. by Samuel Carroll Derby,
Columbus, Ohio, 1901, pages 23-24
Listed under Colonels:
PAUL DUDLEY SARGENT of Amherst, b. Salem, Mass., 1745; d. at Sullivan, Me., Sept. 28, 1827. His
father was Col. Epes Sargent, a well-known citizen of Gloucester, Mass. He was sent as a delegate
from Amherst to the first four sessions of the Provincial Congress at Exeter, N. H. Oct. 6, 1775,
Col. Sargent was in command of a regiment near Boston, which had at least two N. H. companies
(William Scott's and Jere Stiles's) and many N. H. men scattered through other companies. Col.
Sargent was wounded at Bunker Hill, and he may have commanded there the extra companies of Col.
Stark's regiment. Col. Sargent had endeavored to raise a regiment, but had not raised a full
quota of companies before the 17th of June, 1775. There is some obscurity about his position in
the N. H. service, possibly he was Col. of a Mass. regiment, or of troops from both N. H. and
Mass. Stark and Reed were better known than Sargent in N. H., and men enlisted more readily
under them. It is probable that his commission was issued by Mass. He commanded a brigade in the
campaign about New York, 1776, and took part in the battles of Harlem, White Plains, Trenton and
Princeton. After the Revolution he was judge of probate, and of common pleas, in Hancock county,
Me.
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